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> If I'm an average Russian citizen, maybe I'm against the war, or more likely I just don't feel very strongly about it. Unfortunately, no. A LOT of Russian ci
by golergka 5y ago
> If I'm an average Russian citizen, maybe I'm against the war, or more likely I just don't feel very strongly about it.
Unfortunately, no. A LOT of Russian citizens are enthusiastically pro-war, and it's very hard to de-program them from state-run propaganda machine.
- charles_f 5y agoSource?
- golergka 5y agoLived in Moscow almost all of my life, have been a political activists for a few years, have 30+k subscribers on my Russian political tik-tok account. I talk to a lot of Russians both online and offline. The support and bloodthirst is real, I'd say at about 60% support this war. Russians saying that "we should just nuke the states and kill them all" are not something out of the ordinary.
- Andrew_nenakhov 5y agoYeah right. They are so pro-war that the government recently made it a crime [1] punishable by up to 15 years in prison to be publically against the war or spreading information about it not coming from official sources. [1]: https://www.bbc.com/russian/news-60594110 https://www.bbc.com/russian/news-60594110
- golergka 5y agoSuppressing alternative sources of information is a part of any fascist propaganda machine, yes.